While I didn’t think that they would go after a dictionary, it’s not surprising that fascists would go after a book full of definitions.
After reading a little bit, it’s not that they banned dictionaries, but it seems the district got ahead of the curve. The law itself is the problem
That’s why they have an overly broad definition of what is prohibited. So they can pick and choose what they will allow.
In this case I think the district is doing this in protest. The legislators intended to pick and choose, but the district is applying it as written, so Dictionaries are out. They’re highlighting how absurd the law is.
That was my impression, similar move to schools banning the Bible citing all the beastiality, rape and mass murder in there
Eh, I think this is going to play into the legislator’s designs.
My thoughts as well. This leads to “only approved books allowed.”
Which is the whole point of the law.
They have already stated they want “their people” to be the deciders. It’s just textbook fascism.
Without the textbook.
I hope they’ve alerted their groundskeepers that all trees, shrubs, bushes, and flowers must be mowed over, because pollen and flowers are Nature’s pole-dancers and sluts. Not sure if they can have grass.
Grass is a euphemism for marijuana so they can’t have that or it will give kids ideas
Oh no! We can’t have people, let alone children, getting ideas!
Grass will flower if you don’t mow it.
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I’m not surprised. I haven’t read the dictionary but people tell me it talks all about what homosexuals are and what transgender means and it actually defines the word ‘lesbian!’
I hear it even defines “woke”!
It has all the banned things!
And teenagers across the land learn the dictionary is actually pretty cool.
Parents NEED to lodge formal complaints with the police and school boards in EVERY district that still has dictionaries and encyclopedias in the libraries.
Whittle down every district until they’re only allowed to work on coloring books for every grade K-12, or as close as they can get.
Don’t forget to target private schools with massive social media campaigns to inform all parents that dictionaries = grooming. If the private schools refuse to respond, convince the dumber wealthy parents to pull their kids and put them into a safe school, without books.
Conservative = Stupid
Coloring books in place of books is exactly how you grow the Republican voter base.
Mindless exploitable industrial scale human production is the end game of the Republican army of the Oligarchy. It’s industrial cattle, but humans; eat garbage, consume everything you’re told, ask no questions, and barely survive. If anything bad happens, use your gun to take yourself out and/or whatever other farm stock you feel oppressed and frustrated with inside your little pin.
Even if what you’re saying is true, and I’m not going to take a position either way, it doesn’t have any bearing on my suggestion.
DeSantis is a reply guy with power. This bill wasn’t passed because a majority of FL voters want it, not even a majority of his voters. This bill, like many others, was simply him trying to ride the culture war to the White House, but it failed. The only thing keeping it in place in inertia and the desire to save face. That only changes if the political calculus changes.
I guarantee you that if these book bans were exploited to force the closure of ALL public school libraries, remove dictionaries and encyclopedias from all classrooms, and basically made to significantly impact ALL FL parents, or even just the wealthier areas, the public outcry from parents would be enough to reverse it.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Never underestimate the combination of human stupidity, cognitive dissonance, and the sunk cost fallacy all working together. It’s amazing how much the truly radicalized will suffer for their cause. Rational people protect their self-interest, but insane people will often die to protect their delusions.
But that’s their goal, they want kids to be stupid so they’ll vote republican when they grow up.
/m/MaliciousCompliance is leaking :D
I don’t think this was malicious in any way, just covering their asses since they have a fascist state government.
Fantastic. Now those pesky kids won’t know what fascism means.
Pesky Kid: I looked up the word “fascist” on my parent’s phone, and it showed a picture of Ron DeSantis. Weirdly, it does the same when you lookup “dumbass…”
More like they’ll be provided with shitty “Christian Approved” dictionaries with all the naughty words taken out.
Guess they got tired tired of hearing “words have meanings” in response to their mindless rambling.
Not sure I trust a librarian that writes “indefinately”
I read that as a pun/clue to their true motives
Soon: “All books are now banned because they contain the letters L, G, B, T and Q. Any books containing these five letters will now be banned from public libraries.”
Ernest Vincent Wright: “Hold my beer”
Ernes* Vincen* Wri* h*
“Hod my eer.”
That book defines “racism” and “slavery” and may contain examples. Conservatives definitely don’t want white kids finding out their ancestors may have been conservatives.
I wish we could do multiple things at once, but it appears we struggle with one. Once Trump goes to prison for trying to steal the election, maybe we can finally send Abbott and DeSatin for human trafficking
Are they trying to make new speak a reality?
Check this bit from the end:
In a brief submitted by the State of Florida in support of Escambia, Attorney General Ashley Moody argued that the school board could ban books for any reason because the purpose of public school libraries is to “convey the government’s message,” and that can be accomplished through “the removal of speech that the government disapproves.”
Land of the free 🤔
The party of small govt (except for pushing christofascism)
because it exposes students to “alternate sexual ideologies.” Baggett said she was concerned “a second grader would read this book, and that idea would pop into the second grader’s mind… that these are two people of the same sex that love each other.”
This is the kind of people we are dealing with. They are literally trying to prevent children from developing accepting attitudes towards minorities. That is their stated goal. It’s not often I read such blatant disgusting hatred coming from a teacher. The book she was referencing was And Tango makes three. Which is unbelievable in the context of her statement. Were the penguins, who were real actual penguins, somehow a part of an “alternate sexual ideology”? How badly rotten does your brain have to be to think “sexual ideology” when you see 2 penguins raising a baby together?
Ah, don’t you just love when (a part of) the land of freedom advertises propaganda (or censors unwanted ideas more appropriately) against a minority from the early age
Doesn’t even remotely resemble anything else /s
The reality in Escambia County serves as a rejoinder to DeSantis, who has described concerns about book removals as a “leftist activist hoax” and a “false political narrative.”
If Floridians had a dictionary to look up “rejoinder” with, they’d be very upset.
